684 BENGAL > PLANTS. [ Cryptostegia. — 
{Corolla-lobes absolutely valvate, the stamens arising from ] : 
the base of the corolla ; coronal scales attached to staminal — 
tube :-—[p. 683] q 
Scales of corona erect, membranous ; corolla urceolate 
cales of corona stellately spreading, thick and fleshy; 
corolla rotate; anthers rarely without a membranous tip 
Hoya. 
+Anthers without a membranous, inflexed tip; corona double, a 
outer annular, 5-10-lobed, attached to eure tube, inner of 5 
scales opposite the anthers, nip face of outer; stamens — q 
attached to base of corolla; corolla cine with subglobose base 
and valvate, lantern-shaped limb, the lobes cohering at t their 
apices ; stems pein ; seeds with a coma [p. 683] . .. Ceropegia. " 
Large climbers ; leiwes opposite. — large, in terminal, 
stigma, tips acute, connivent ; pollen-masses in pairs in each cell, 
ular, appendages of corpuscles subspathulate. Carpels 2, 
each many-ovuled ; styles distinct; stigma convex. Fruit of oy 
thick, divaricate, ET: plsiaen a follicles, farome between th 
wings. Seeds como 
939. penne GRANDIFLORA R. Br.; F. B. I. iv. 6; B. Be 
5 : , 
A large, stout  . native a “Africa or of Mada- 
gascar. 
565. Cryptolepis R. Br. 
Glabrous, climbing shrubs; leaves oppos 
ap slender, dichotomous, few-flowered 
Flowers in very 
cle rminal ¢ 
rotate corolla; tube short, eylindrie or campan | anulate ; lobes lineat: 
overlapping and twisted to the right: coronal scales 5, near ¢ 
